Building construction



Patented Mar. 17, 1931 l vUNITED STATES HERMANN FOUGNER, OF LARCHMONT, NEW YORK BUILDING CONSTRUCTION Application filed December 9, 1929. VSerial No. 412,880;

This invention relates to building construction.

1t is among the objects of the present invention to provide a building construction in 5 which the various floors may receive vehicles to be directly loaded from the floors.

A further object of the inventionis to provide a building construction including elevators and elevator shafts whereby vehicles may becarried by the elevators to various floors of the building so that the vehicles may be loaded directly from the floors.

The present invention includes the provision of building construction in which the Hoors are depressed so that vehicles may be lifted by the elevators to the doors and suffiient head-room for the vehicles be provided or. Y

A further object of the present invention is' to provide a building construction having elevators and elevator shafts and depressed floor portions in each Hoor on opposite sides ol the elevator shafts, whereby a single eleva tor may deliver a motor vehicle to any floor 0f the building.

o 12 in which elevators 13 are mounted in the usual manner, the elevators being designed to permit a motor vehicle to move on or off the same at either end. The floors of the building are illustrated as at 14, and access to the elevators from the exterior of the building is provided for by suitable doorways 15. For accommodating motor vehicles, such as indicated at 16, every other floor-in line withV any one shaft 12, is depressed on oneside to form a lowered vehi zle-rec`3e1v1rig-` platform 1.7, the intervening floors being depressed in line on the opposite side of the saine shaft, as indicated in Fig. 1'. 'As shown bythe dotted lilies 18y in the drawings, the iioors are depressed in staggered relation, whereby veach side offeach floor will be served by one or more of the elevators 13. 4 f

Byreferringto'the drawings it will be understood that the invention'isillustrated only dlagrannnatically and that the positioning of the depressions and the arrangement of the elevator shafts maybe of any desiredplan. In Fig. 2 the section is takenl so as to show the depending side Walls andfloor of the depression 1S of the second floor, the side walls being indicatedat 19 in this figure. Various modifications of the invention may obviously be resorted to without departing from` the spirit or scope of the invention.

By referring to Fig. 1,V it will be seen that in some instances the space between the depression 17. andthe loor `thereunder indicated at 20, may be used as storage space, while by diiferent arrangement this space may be usedto give excess rheadroom for the vehicle. This is accomplished by oiningl the floor with the depression of theiioor above, as indicated at 21 in the top plan of Fig. 1.

In the use of the device, it will be seen that the motor vehicle 16 may enter the building and be received by the elevator and carried to the desired Hoor, each elevator lshaft bein g arranged to carry vehicles to every floor of the building. lWhen the desired floor is reached, the vehicle may move under its 'own power into the depression or recess 17.' Tt will be seen that the depressions are arranged so thatthe floor of the motor vehicle is in alinelnent with the door of the building, and thus ready loading of the vehicle is 'provided for. Trucks or other carrying means may be moved directly from the licor 14 to the floor of the motor vehicle. l When the loading is completed the vehicle may againl move'under its own power onto the elevator and 'lowered to the ground level. 1

-twillbe seen that the invention-also pro vides for the normal storing 'of motor ve# hielsonyaronsgoers, thussaving expensive From the foregoing it will be readily seen that the invention provides a novel, simple and efficient construction which provides for the ready loading and unloading of motor vehicles directly upon the ioors of the building, and that the invention further provides storage space for the motor vehicles, and is arranged to accommodate the motor vehicles by providing eXcess head-rooni at 'predetermined points on the various floors of the building, this being usually required as the normal head-room would not provide for the reception of a truck between the ioors.

What is claimed is:

l. A building, including elevator shafts, and a plurality of floors, said floors being depressed adjacent said shafts to receive motor vehicles therefrom, the depressions of said floors being in staggered relation with the floor above each depression uninterrupted.

2. A building, including elevator shafts, and a plurality of floors, said floors being depressed adjacent said shafts to receivemotor vehicles therefrom, the depressionsr of said floors being in staggered relation with the Hoor above each depression uninterrupted, whereby each elevator shaft may serve every other Hoor of the building Withl trucks higher than the height of a story. j

3. A building construction, including floors, and elevator shafts communicating therewith, and a vehicle-receiving depression in alternate floors adjacent said shafts.

4. A building construction, including floors and elevator shafts communicating therewith, and vehicle-receiving depressions in said floors adjacent said shafts, the depres sions on every other floor being in a-linement and the oors above the respective depressions being uninterrupted whereby ti'ucks of a greater height than a story may be landed in each of said depressions. Q

5. A building construction, including floors and elevator shafts 'communicating 'therewith, and vehicle-receiving depressions in said floors adjacent said shafts, the depressions on every other floor being in vertical alinement and staggered with respect to the depressions in the intermediate floors,t he floor immediately aboveeach depression being uninterrupted whereby'trucks-of greater heights than the story may be landed in the respective'depressions. t f i 6. A'building construction, lincluding. a iio'or having arlowered portion adjacentuan portion is formed by a similar lowered portion in the fioor above.

8. A building structure including a plurality of floors, truck elevators, a truck landing depression at each ioor adapted to receive a truck from an elevator, said landing depression being located on a level below the floor level, the ceiling of said depression formiiig an uninterrupted portion of the ceiling of the contiguous floor.

9. A building structure including a plurality of floors, an elevator shaft, an elevator car in said shaft adapted to receive a truck, each of said Hoors having a depressed landing station, said stations being staggered whereby the floor immediately above each station will be uninterrupted so that the height of the space above the floor of each station will be equal to the height of a story plus the height of the depression.

10. A building construction includingl lioors, an elevator shaft communicating therewith, and vehicle-receiving depressions in said floors adjacent said shaft, the depressions on every other ioorA being at opposite sides of the elevator shaft, and the floors above the respective depressions being uninterrupted so as to enable an elevator coacting. with said shaft to discharge trucks of a greater height than the story on each floor.

11. A building structure including a truck elevator open at both ends and a plurality of floors, said fioors having depressed landing stations arranged so that a series of stations will be at each end of said elevator, the stations in the respective series being on different floors, and the floor above each station of each series being uninterrupted whereby trucks of a greater height than the story may be landed on each of said stations.

12. A building construction including a plurality of floors each floor having a part thereof depressed to form a landing station, the stations on alternate lioors being in vertical alinenient, and the floor immediately above each station being cut out so that the head room of each station will be the distance from the floor on said station to the floor of the next station thereabove.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this 5th day of December, A. D. 1929.

l HERMANN FOUGrNER.A

elevator shaft, and the ceiling above .cut out to increase the height of thefloor over said lowered portion. Y

7. A building construction, including superposed floors having lowered portions adjacent an elevator shaft, the ioor above agiven lowered portion being raisedto the lowered portion of the ioor above to increase the height of -the space overV said given lowered. portion whereby the ceiling. o'ver .-sa1df, given` lowered 

